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Vale S.A.
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20030-900 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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Vale structures logistics to support its operations in Africa
Rio de Janeiro, September 21, 2010 Vale S.A. (Vale) informs it exercised an option to purchase a
51% stake in Sociedade de Desenvolvimento do Corredor do Norte SA (SDCN), owned by the Mozambican
company Insitec SGPS SA (Insitec). This acquisition will enable the necessary logistics
infrastructure for transporting the output coming from the second phase of Moatize coal project
(Moatize II) development.
Moatize is a coal deposit with proven and probable reserves of 1.087 billion metric tons of coal
and the project includes an open pit mine operation. Moatize I has a nominal production capacity
estimated at 11 million metric tons of coal, 80% metallurgical coal and 20% thermal coal, with
start up expected for the first half of 2011.
In the first stage of development is being built a CHPP (coal handling preparation plant) with
annual capacity of 26 million metric tons. In this first phase, the production of coal will be
transported by the Linha do Sena railway to the Beira port.
SDCN controls, with 51% participation, the Corredor de Desenvolvimento do Norte (CDN) and the
Central East African Railways (CEAR). The CDN is responsible for the concession of an 872 km
railroad in Mozambique, which connects Entrelagos in the Niassa province to the port of Nacala in
the Nampula province, northern Mozambique, and of the port of Nacala. CEAR holds the concession of
the railway system in Malawi, which currently comprises 797 km of railway connecting the country,
north-south and east-west. CDN and CEAR rail systems are connected near the mineral region of
Moatize, in the province of Tete, Mozambique, providing an additional logistics corridor for the
coal to be produced in the region.
While that makes it feasible to expand the capacity of Moatize, the logistics infrastructure
constitutes an excellent alternative for transporting to the east coast of Africa the production
from the copper belt of Zambia, where we are starting to develop Konkola North, from our Evate
phosphate rock project in Mozambique, and other cargo from Zambia-Malawi-Mozambique.
With the goal to create a world-class infrastructure of logistics to support our operations in
Central and Eastern Africa, we will invest in the capacity expansion of the Nacala logistics
corridor, through the construction of railway links needed to ensure the production of Moatize and
a new deep water maritime terminal in Nacala.
This transaction is an integrated part of Vales strategy to build efficient logistics
infrastructure to support the growth of its activities with high potential for value creation. In
this context, as recently disclosed, we obtained the concession for a Ferrosur railway stretch in
Argentina very important for the success of the Rio Colorado potash project, and entered into
contracts with the government of Liberia for the construction of an integrated railway-port system
for transporting the production of iron ore from Simandou, in Guinea.
For further information, please contact:
+55-21-3814-4540
Roberto Castello Branco: roberto.castello.branco@vale.com
Viktor Moszkowicz: viktor.moszkowicz@vale.com
Carla Albano Miller: carla.albano@vale.com
Andrea Gutman: andrea.gutman@vale.com
Fernando Frey: fernando.frey@vale.com
Marcio Loures Penna: marcio.penna@vale.com
Samantha Pons: samantha.pons@vale.com
Thomaz Freire: thomaz.freire@vale.com
This press release may include declarations about Vales expectations regarding future events or
results. All declarations based upon future expectations, rather than historical facts, are subject
to various risks and uncertainties. Vale cannot guarantee that such declarations will prove to be
correct. These risks and uncertainties include factors related to the following: (a) the countries
where Vale operates, mainly Brazil and Canada; (b) the global economy; (c) capital markets; (d) the
mining and metals businesses and their dependence upon global industrial production, which is
cyclical by nature; and (e) the high degree of global competition in the markets in which Vale
operates. To obtain further information on factors that may give rise to results different from
those forecast by Vale, please consult the reports filed with the Brazilian Comissão de Valores
Mobiliários (CVM), the French Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), and with the U.S. Securities
and Exchange Commission (SEC), including Vales most recent Annual Report on Form 20F and its
reports on Form 6K.